Bill Text: TX HB121 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to establishing a pilot program to provide school district employees assistance with child-care services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-10-11 - Filed [HB121 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB121-Introduced.html
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| By: Smith | H.B. No. 121 | |
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| relating to establishing a pilot program to provide school district | ||
| employees assistance with child-care services. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 22.012 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 22.012. CHILD-CARE SERVICES ASSISTANCE PILOT PROGRAM. | ||
| (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Child-care facility" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 42.002, Human Resources Code. | ||
| (2) "Pilot program" means the child-care services | ||
| assistance pilot program established under this section. | ||
| (b) The agency shall establish the child-care services | ||
| assistance pilot program to award grants to school districts to | ||
| provide child-care services for children of district employees. | ||
| (c) A grant awarded to a school district under the pilot | ||
| program may be used to: | ||
| (1) establish a child-care facility on district | ||
| property; | ||
| (2) contract with a child-care facility to provide | ||
| child-care services for children of district employees; or | ||
| (3) provide district employees with stipends to cover | ||
| all or part of the costs of child-care services. | ||
| (d) The agency shall: | ||
| (1) establish criteria for awarding grants to school | ||
| districts under the pilot program that include criteria based on: | ||
| (A) the availability of child-care facilities in | ||
| a district; | ||
| (B) the need for child-care services assistance | ||
| among district employees; and | ||
| (C) any other factor the agency determines is | ||
| necessary and relevant; and | ||
| (2) to the extent practicable, award grants to a | ||
| representative sample of school districts, including at least: | ||
| (A) one school district with a student enrollment | ||
| of 10,000 or more; | ||
| (B) one school district with a student enrollment | ||
| of at least 2,500 but less than 10,000; | ||
| (C) one school district with a student enrollment | ||
| of more than 1,000 but less than 2,500; and | ||
| (D) one school district with a student enrollment | ||
| of 1,000 or less. | ||
| (e) To receive a grant under the pilot program, a school | ||
| district must apply to the agency in the form and manner prescribed | ||
| by the agency. | ||
| (f) Not later than September 1, 2026, each school district | ||
| that received a grant under the pilot program shall submit to the | ||
| agency a report that includes: | ||
| (1) an itemized list of each item on which the district | ||
| spent the grant money; and | ||
| (2) an evaluation of the pilot program by district | ||
| employees who received child-care services or a stipend under the | ||
| pilot program. | ||
| (g) Not later than December 1, 2026, the agency shall submit | ||
| to the legislature a report on the effectiveness of the pilot | ||
| program, using data reported to the agency under Subsection (f), | ||
| and any recommendations for legislative or other action. | ||
| (h) This section expires September 1, 2027. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
